Weekly round-up and open thread, 16th May 2011

by Carrie Dunn // 15 May 2011, 13:22

Here's this week's open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we've noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about. Lots of Slutwalk stuff, unsurprisingly.

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Much higher than the press reported, too. The reporting of the study in the media has been appalling and has minimised the rate of rapes in the DRC. (48 rapes an hour is really really bad ... but the comparable rate in the UK is over 20 an hour in a similar-sized country, and the press don't seem to expect that to be shocking) For a start, the oft-quoted rate for DRC excludes marital/partner rape and sexual assault, excludes people being raped more than once in the same year, and so on. The study itself is important for various reasons; the reporting tells us nothing we didn't already know.

Cara at the Curvature has more criticism of the reporting at http://thecurvature.com/2011/05/12/new-congo-rape-statistics-inspire-competitive-headlines-not-much-else/

I have a post with more detail about the study and the reporting at http://refusingthedefault.blogspot.com/2011/05/journalists-downplay-rape-prevalence-in.html

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